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Name: Helen Esther Bombeck
Sex: F
Birth: 17 OCT 1905 in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa Underwood, Pottawattamie, Iowa ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}
Death: 6 JAN 1990 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, SD ³
Burial: Madison, Lake, South Dakota. ³
Person Id: I22
Tree Id: 231024

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Parents

Father:

August Herman Bombeck: Birth: 3 JUL 1865 in Stadensen, Hanover, Prussia. Death: 14 FEB 1940 in White, Brookings, South Dakota

Mother:

Anna Willhemina Damitz: Birth: 7 JUN 1875 in Plumer, Mills, Iowa. Death: 30 JUN 1940 in Brookings, Brookings, SD

Family
Marriage:

Married: Rolland Leonard Cox on 3 MAY 1927 at Madison, Lake, South Dakota.^{1 3 7 8}
Rolland Leonard Cox: Birth: 28 JUN 1896 in Paton or Dana, Greene, Iowa. Death: 27 NOV 1957 in Madison, Lake, South Dakota

Sources

1.	Title: Bombeck Heritage Author: Lela Dutro Constance and Maxine Bucy Hendrix Publication: written about 1977-1978
2.	Title: Weeks-Grist Family Genealogy, compiled by Bessie (Kelly) Hobbs. Written before 1982
3.	Title: Obituary of Helen Cox Madison Daily Leader Madison, South Dakota 8 January 1990
4.	Title: Helen Esther Bombeck Delayed Certificate of Birth
5.	Title: Esther Helene Bombeck Baptism Certificate 6 May 1906
6.	Title: August & Anna Bombeck Family 15 Jan 1920 Fourteenth Census of the United States White, Brookings County, South Dakota Enumeration District 5, Ward 3, Sheet 4 LDS Microfilm Call Number 1821715
7.	Title: Rolland Leonard Cox and Helene Esther Bombeck Certificate of Marriage 3 May 1927
8.	Title: Rolland Cox and Helen Bombeck, wedding announcement the Leader White ?, South Dakota May 1927

Notes

Note: She attended Madison Normal School for a year and then taught school east of White for a year before marrying. She walked or rode a
horse to the school which was heated with a wood stove.
After raising her children, she went back to teaching in 1947.
She taught at Pulford School, a one room
school, for a year, at Junius, SD, a three room school, for two years,
then taught fourth grade at Garfield School in Madison, SD, until the
spring of 1971 when she retired. After her retirement, she worked as
a teacher's aide. She earned her associate degree in education from
General Beadle in Madison, SD, in 1954. In 1975 she was elected woman
of the year by the Madison Business and Professional Women.

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